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Syria. 'In contradiction with several international and domestic standards, most of the detainees have not been convicted nor being tried; as such, their long-term detention does not hold legal grounds' (Photo: Reuters)

Legal limbo for EU children and wives of the Caliphate

As the coronavirus pandemic disfigures Europe, it is difficult to get prepared for what is to come.

The post-COVID-19 era might see the upsurge of forgotten ghosts that Europe thought it had put behind. Proliferating in the shadows, recidivist security threats have found fertile grounds in the chaos engendered by the pandemic.

Since the beginning of 2019, when the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) freed the north-western territories of Syria from the last pockets of the ...

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Sofia Cherici is a researcher in international development at Sciences Po, Paris.

Syria. 'In contradiction with several international and domestic standards, most of the detainees have not been convicted nor being tried; as such, their long-term detention does not hold legal grounds' (Photo: Reuters)

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Sofia Cherici is a researcher in international development at Sciences Po, Paris.

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